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How are you determining that auto-negotiation is failing? Are you looking at the switch side of the connection or the firebox side? I've not had any issues and seeing that all of my ports are 100 and Full Duplex.

no luck figuring out why. but I have everthing working. I only have one issue and that is my vonage device will not connect. I connected it to the a dell 8 port switch then used a cross connect cable. I connect it there and have had no issues.

Stephen10 was talking about 2 different add on cards. what are the and what do they do?

There are no add on cards for the X-Peak as far as I know. The only expansion possibility is the mini-PCI slot. There is an expansion card for the X-E series, the 'tacoma' module, which adds advanced encryption for VPNs. It doesn't work in pfSense.

I just order a disk caddy for my 2.5 - 40 GB hard drive. I reading through the forum on installing to a HD. The problem that I have is I only have is, That I do not have a laptop that I can put the hard drive in to install PFsense.

The caddy came from England, it should be here this upcomming weekend. I have is a USB to IDE converter. I would like to get the hard drive prepared before it comes in.

What options do I have. Does anybody have a base image that is 40GB in size that I could install on my HD.

I tried to upgrade my memory to 2 Gigabytes last night in my X8000. I figured I would max it out and ran into a roadblock. When I installed the new memory all it would do it make a beeping sounds. Nothing would come up on the LCD screen. What I ordered was DDR1 400 PC3200 ECC. Can anyone provide me with a type of DD1 400 with or with out ECC. I really would prefer ECC though. An I guess if anyone else has the same type of ram maybe they can test as well. I didn't think to download the hardware guide to try and reset the BIOS via the jumper. Do you think that might be my issue the BIOS expects 512 megs. I also didn't see the VGA connector on the X8000. I had thought the 2x8 2mm pitch IDC 16 connector was on the X8000.

Doesn't the original P4 2.8GHz cpu run with a 533 FSB?The bios behaves just as a standard desktop bios as far as ram settings are concerned. I'd be very surprised if it was locked at 512MB, though I haven't tried it. I don't think the standard ram is ECC.I have seen some bioses that through out an error when you change the ram. It could be saying something you can't see.The 2mm pitch VGA header is only in the X-e box as you have found. I don't beleive the X-Peak has any vga hardware at all.

That is very disappointing. I'm going to continue on my quest to get more ram for the X8000. Maybe I will have a talk with the mother board manufacturer. I was able to get a 4 gig CF card to boot with out making any changes to the BIOS settings. Well I can't really make any changes to the BIOS. It would be nice to see the BIOS screen with out flashing the current BIOS.

I trying to buy a x8000 and have read the whole thread. Thanks for all the work steve.

What is the best way to integrate Wifi into the firebox? I can see you have an antenna, what are the options ie USB or minipci? Model number of working devices would be appreciated. I don't mind modding the case but I have never done any soldering so hopefully none is needed.

I have a x8000 and your only option is the minipci slot. There is only one USB slot and it's a v1.0 or 1.1 not v2.0 USB. You could try usb but get less than the 12 megabits of bandwidth you would be expecting.

That should work ok although there are issues with the driver. I get the 'stuck beacon' report in the logs a lot if I'm on a busy channel.You need to use a short adapter cable to connect to the minipci card known as a 'pigtail'. I recovered the antenna and cable from an old access point.

stephenw10: Noise is my concern I have a X700 sat here next to me and its LOUD. Do I need to replace the processor in the X8000 or can I leave the stock processor in and just change the heatsink fan. I read about your pin mod

The standard fans are loud!. The standard CPU, 2.8GHz P4, is a hot chip with a 70w TDP. Also it has no power saving features which means it runs hot even though you almost certainly won't be using most of it's processing capacity.There are loads of compatible processors available for almost nothing that use less Watts. It's worth trying something cooler if you are fitting slower fans. Although I ran the original CPU and it wasn't running too hot with slower fans but I wasn't stressing it.